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malcolm x ti

malcolm x ti

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__html__Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little, 1925-1965) was a Muslim minister and an important leader in the Black civil rights struggle in the United States. His parents — a Georgian father and a Grenadine mother — were both active in Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association, which preached Black unity and pan-Africanism. Born in Omaha, family moves in his childhood took Malcolm to Milwaukee and then Lansing, Michigan, where he was a strong student — but he dropped out of high school after a teacher told him his dream of becoming a lawyer was "no realistic goal for a n——." After a string of robberies in Boston, he was sentenced to a Massachusetts prison, where he read copiously and became a member of the Nation of Islam, a religious movement preaching Black self-reliance and an eventual return to Africa. In 1950, following NOI guidance, he dropped his "slave name" surname and began referring to himself as Malcolm X.His intelligence, charisma, oratory, and forceful presence quickly made him a leader in the Nation of Islam and a magnet for media coverage. He took a far more aggressive stance on civil rights matters than his frequent point of comparison, Martin Luther King, Jr.; he preached the separation of the races and decried a sole focus on non-violence resistance, arguing Black rights should be achieved "by any means necessary." His growing prominence sparked jealousy in the movement's leader, Elijah Muhammad, who began trying to curtail his public actions; Malc